Sentences with phrase «prayer of consecration»
This is his prayer of consecration.
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According to this view, the bread and wine after the prayer of consecration became the body and blood of Christ.
The Book of Common Prayer had this meaning in view when it employs, in the course of the Prayer of Consecration in the service of Holy Communion, the words: «Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Savior Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here, before thy Divine Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.»
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And that is why, in our prayer at the altar, we ask that the consecration may be brought about for us: Ut nobis Corpus et Sanguis fiat... 3 If I firmly believe that everything around me is the body and blood of the Word, 4 then for me (and in one sense for me alone) is brought about that marvellous «diaphany» which causes the luminous warmth of a single life to be objectively discernible in and to shine forth from the depths of every event, every element: whereas if, unhappily, my faith should flag, at once the light is quenched and everything becomes darkened, everything disintegrates.
From this centrality flow all the essential characteristics of religious life: prayer, the liturgy and particularly the Eucharist, community life, mission to the world, total consecration and radical gift of self in perseverance.
However, even if he were devoutly Catholic, I'd suggest there was no transubstantiation of his bootleg wine — intention is required for sacraments to be valid, so if the priest did not even know about his hidden swill, then the prayer for consecration was not addressed to it, nor would God cooperate in mocking one of His own sacraments.
It occurred at the beginning of the «Canon» of the Mass, the long central prayer which recalls the «Last Supper» and includes the consecration of the bread and the wine.